Scenery Quotes - Page 6

• The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

  E. J. Hughes

  Style, Looks, Stage

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• I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

  John Muir

  Memories, Cutting, Nursing

  John Muir, William Frederic Badè (1998). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They’re made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?

  Janet Evanovich

  Snow, Doe, Way

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Teacher, Fall, Writing

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• It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

  E. M. Forster

  Mean, Degrees, Gestures

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• My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

  David Levithan

  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  True Friend, Would Be, Sticks

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.204, Bantam

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• I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

  Tammara Webber

  Home, Eye, Night

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• I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie you can move the scenery, you can do anything any way. A cartoon, happens in a limited amount of space and a limited amount of time, and you can only get so many words before the reader's gonna get impatient. All of these forms that I enjoy are in a sense a slight of hand, where you have to suggest much more than you really show. You have to, in a sense, seduce the reader and trick the reader or the audience into going with you.

  Jules Feiffer

  Moving, Thinking, Cartoon

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• The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

  Yang Liwei

  Beautiful, Wall, Space

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• Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Love Is, Painting

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.51, Vintage

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• Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

  Nancy Reagan

  Jobs, Vacation, President

  "The Most Ridiculous Myths About Barack Obama" by Paul Brandus, www.businessinsider.com. November 05, 2012.

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• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  Frederick Marryat

  Dream, Lying, Home

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• Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

  Vincent Canby

  Beautiful, Deals, Hunts

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• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Beauty, Exercise, Giving

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn

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• Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by holding for laughter and by letting them know early on what they're in for. In the first few moments, the audience is gathering information, looking at the scenery and costumes. Create a comic moment as soon as you can.

  James Carver

  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

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• The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

  James Jeans

  Gratitude, Detours, Lovable

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• When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

  Pablo Casals

  Voice, Creating, Play

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• It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.

  Bosley Crowther

  Rivers, Missing, Way

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• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Medicine, Sick

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CIV

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• Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Change, Dog, Never Change

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• When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Running, Bodybuilding

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• The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Midst, Seers

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• Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

  Vera Farmiga

  Weed, New York, Moving

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• A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

  Patrick Modiano

  Men, Climbing

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